XSplit: For recording from a console, you’ll need a hardware device too – like the Roxio Gamecap HD ProRoxio Game Capture HD Pro Review and GiveawayRoxio Game Capture HD Pro Review and GiveawaySharing your game playing sessions is all the rage nowadays, as the rise of Twitch.TV has shown. Every moment of the day, there are literally millions of people just watching other people play - it's...Read More we reviewed. Although your device will come with some basic software, XSplit software is a professional choice allowing you to voiceover, mix in different layers of video and setup alternate scenes. It is however a premium app, which runs on a subscription model of $5/month. Compared to OBS it’s a lot more user friendly.

Reflector ($12) creates an AirPlay target to which you can broadcast from any compatible iOS device. There’s virtually no configuration, and it works wirelessly, but it’s limited to straight recording – if you want to add a voiceover, you’ll need to do that in post-production.

My personal choice goes to XSplit. They can get away with premium pricing because no other software rivals it in terms of features or ease of use. For recording just PC games on a shoestring budget though, there’s certainly nothing wrong with OBS.

What’s your favourite game capture solution? Do you record your console gaming with a hardware device, or just upload clips using the new generation of social features? Let us know in the comments!

If you have Nvidia GPU, there is nothing better than Shadow Play which is part of Geforce Experience, it is the BEST recording software (free for Nvidia GPU holders), now they have upgraded to do customer recording of videos as well......

I'd throw out another vote for Nvidia's ShadowPlay. You can get some professional-grade recordings out of it (just make sure you've got the hard drive space for it: recording at the highest quality level for me takes about 10GBs for every half-hour).

In Planetside 2 my Unit got together with Sony SOE to organise a multistream broadcast.
Between them they found that OBS had the lowest CPU load of any of the options available.
Don't be fooled just because it's free; it's Open Source.

OBS is my favorite software. EVE Online and other games integrate twitch support anymore, but I still use OBS due to efficiency and possible manipulation. In the world of EVE Online, spying is entirely legit, so blocking channels is a must. The advanced audio controls and whatnot are also nice.